Alfred had sent Alice to his chambers to go to sleep together as was usual between a married couple. She went through the closet of Arthur and Alfred seeing a difference between styles and such. Alfred entered the room.

"Are ya looking for something to wear to go to sleep?" Alfred asked

"Alfie! I was, but it's obvious since I'm a girl...these clothes won't work for me, but no worries love, I'll just use my t-shirts to sleep tonight" she said as she took arthurs t-shirt that was atleast a size bigger than her. She changed in the bathroom and came back out, Alfred was at his desk revising some documents when she surprised him with kisses.

The Spades King was incredibly surprised to be greeted this way since Arthur never greeted him like this unless he was needy.

"A-Arthur! I mean- Alice! I'm working" Alfred said through kisses.

"Aww come on, I missed you, a lot...and I don't even get my King to love me back...how cruel" she said as she went and sat on the bed. Putting a pouty face.

Alfred sighed in defeat and sat next to Alice, "I don't want to exhaust you, especially after being beaten and maybe tortured...and then turned to a girl" Alfred replied

Alice sighed, "do you not like my girl form?" She asked as she took Alfred hand and placed it on her thigh. "Do you not like my body? Does it not please you?" She asked.

Alfred was being charmed, he felt uncomfortable without Arthur. "I-it's not that...I don't...like y-your form...I just uh...don't want to rush it" Alfred said as he got away from Alice. Holding his lustful temptation.

Alice sighed and stood up. "Atleast make out with me tonight" she said, more like demanded.

Meanwhile in Diamonds...

Francis waited at his throne, gazing outside his palace windows when his Jack, Basch spoke. "You're worried for her, aren't you?" Basch asked him.

Francis nodded in response, "she's strong. Nothing will happen to her" basch said once more.

"I'm worried because I don't want to see her be ruined by this war we don't know how to even fight, Monsieur" Francis replied before his eyes gazed upon a blue yellow butterfly that began coming towards him. Francis extended his hand knowing that these were from his Queen. Basch looked at Francis confused, "w-what is that?" Basch asked.

"It's from Lily, it's obvious she had arthurs help..." Francis said as he held the butterfly. The butterfly unlocked into a message, a voice message.

"My dear Francis, we have met the colorless King and he is merely an ordinary man with potential loyal subjects with powers. The Queens have all been replicated into another gender...and tomorrow is when these replicas will be sent out to infiltrate the castle to kill the Kings. The first Queen sent out was Arthurs replica. Alice Kirkland. Please warn the Kings as soon as possible! We are fine, but Elizavéta has suffered some injuries...please send help, the magic barrier is keeping us inside. This place looks somber, dull and scary, it rains a lot. Do you imagine this is the dark forest that lies North of all our kingdoms?" Lily said through the message before it vanished into sparkles.

Francis stood up immediately, "basch! Get Antonio, get anyone and everyone and protect this kingdom. We must get to spades immediately" Francis said as he began to walk out the throne room as fast as possible to get on his carriage.

Alice waited for Alfred to finish his paperwork and go to sleep beside her in bed. She never felt chivalry in her life, not even with Daniel and Noah. She sighed in boredom as Alfred finally changed and came to sleep besides her. "Goodnight" Alfred whispered in a tired voice as he fell asleep. Alice stood from bed and walked towards she had left her own clothes, she grabbed a small knife that had some purple substance, poison. "So cute and vulnerable..." She said with a sad sigh. "I'm sorry " she whispered in the darkness as she went to his side of the bed and raised her hand to stab him. Alfred rolled over immediately.

"Did you really think I would sleep so easily knowing that you aren't MY queen" Alfred said as Alice looked at him with surprise.

"Come on. Show me what you got, ya git" she said as she held the knife in one hand. Alfred did not want to show his king power because if she escaped she would inform his enemy. Alfred threw the nearest things at her and she basically broke them. She got on the bed and began running towards him. Alfred pinned her down on to the bed and she smirked, "I never thought this is what I would do in a mans bedroom at night" she said with a laugh as she placed a kiss on Alfred lips. "You're cute and all but I wish you were a bit deadly" she said as she kneed him in the balls and Alfred rolled over. Alice took her knife and flung it at Alfred but only cut the side of him, the poison was now making his way into his body. She laughed. "You're bloody strong, but not strong enough for My King" Alice said before grabbing her clothes and went to the nearest window.

She gazed into the distance, 4 floors above ground."have fun with the slow death alfie" she said as she blew a kiss to Alfred and jumped out of the window...

Alfred stood up, feeling dizzy. "Shit..." He mumbled as he opened his doors and began to crawl to Mattie's room. Mattie was asleep but when he heard someone open his door. He woke up, seeing it was his brother he calmed down.

"Alfred! Alfred! What happened!?" Mathew began questioning.

"Call Tori...I have been poisoned. Alice wasn't Arthur..." Alfred said as he finally began to lose unconsciousness.

Francis arrived to a spades kingdom that was in slight chaos over their king. Francis sighed, "we are late...aren't we?" He asked basch. Basch stopped the nearest maid and she said that the king had been poisoned. "Poisoned..." Francis said quietly as his Ace Antonio came to his side. "Señor. I told Clubs about the warning, Mister Ivan seemed confident and not very affected. The Hearts are preparing their military, and us...we have started to prepare our military as well" Antonio said with a bow. Francis nodded in approval. "What about the queens?" Francis asked

"Our soldiers don't want to go into the Dark forest..." Antonio said with a slight exasperation in his voice.

"Reunite more Aces then, I need them" Francis commanded as Antonio bowed and left. Basch looked at Francis worried. "I have never seen you so worked up, your majesty" basch commented. Francis threw his hair back.

"Because I have never been messed around with during a war" he said plainly as he began walking to Alfred's chambers.

Alfred was asleep, as Francis walked in, seeing some bloody rags and a ton of grinded herbs used for medicine were around the room. Tori wiped his forehead from sweat. "Oh! King Francis! It's nice to see you, Alfred will be alright, I got the poison out, now he needs rest for atleast 2 days...he's almost in a slight coma but he will wake up" tori said as he began to wipe his hands off with a clean rag.

Francis nodded. "Who is authorized to be the royal while Alfred is asleep?" Francis asked. Yao stood forwards. "I am...but I can't do much without the Queen, regarding to military-aru" Yao murmured. Francis sighed again.

"I need the Queens back as soon as possible, Monsieur Yao. Can I have atleast some knights who are not coward?" Francis asked in a strict tone,

Yao sighed. "Talk to Mathew...he's the Ace-aru"

Francis let the room looking for Matthew. When he found him in the courtyard practicing fencing, "Francis? Hello...can I help you?" Mathew asked quietly.

"I need Knights, soldiers, with balls. No cowards. I need them for the journey into the dark forest to retrieve the Queens" Francis demanded.

Mathew nodded, "I believe our Nordic Knights will be perfect, but I can't risk leaving my own kingdom." Mathew replied.

Francis nodded, "I as a king cannot go...my jack can't either-" Francis began saying but basch stopped him. "I'll go for lily. She's my sister...she's all I have..." He said in a slightly sad tone. Francis nodded. "You can have my jack then...but I keep my ace." Francis offered as a last deal and Mathew accepted.

Alice had returned to the colorless kingdom, and she smirked as she saw Arthur. "He's good as dead" she said as she walked passed him. Arthurs fist turned to fire and he was about to punch her when Kiku held him back. The Japanese man was incredibly strong. "Aqua." He said as water poured over arthurs Fire and extinguished it. "Calm down, Alfred is not dead...he can't be killed easily" Kiku informed as he walked to dinner.

Mathias had accepted the offer to go into the forbidden forest knowing he wasn't one to go into such a dangerous place since he was scared of the place. Lukas had back slapped him in the head telling him to get over his little scary ass. The other Nordics had come too except for Emil the youngest. He stayed with the Ace of Spades in the castle protecting the Ill King. "Guys...the forest keeps getting foggier" Mathias commented as he started touching around to find his brothers but Lukas took him by the hand.

"Shut it big brother and let's keep walking" Lukas said as he walked through the fog holding mathias' hand. Mathias smiled at his younger brothers kindness and suddenly the Ace Of Diamonds, Basch stopped walking.

"Am I the only one who sees a castle in the distance?" Basch asked the group, the group of Nordic men began to squint their eyes to see through the fog but suddenly a voice began to talk.

"I'm glad you idiots made it, I was getting worried, The Awesome me would have to save the day" a voice said when red eyes appeared and a man with white haired appeared. A devilish outfit on. A joker, and next to him a little blonde boy with blue eyes. He looked at the Nordics rather scared of them.

"A joker? How come we can see you?" Tino asked as he held The tall Swedish mans hand.

"It's taking most of my magic to let you see me, but could ya do me a favor?" Gilbert the joker asked with a small smirk on his face.

The group nodded, and the joker smiled. "No matter what happens...don't let the copies take a sample of your blood or DNA. Now, I will let little Peter here take ya into the castle...but be careful since the magic doesn't work well in there" Gilbert said as he began fading away. The group of men looked at the small joker left, and Peter felt Intimidated.

"F-follow me" he said as he began floating towards the castle.

Berwald walked right behind the little joker and picked him up, holding him like a little child. Peter began protesting but tino only smiled, "let Sve hold you, he likes little kids! But I wanted to ask how come we can see you?" Tino asked Peter. Peter looked at the ground and back at the Nordic brothers,

"I'm still a joker in training. Magic for me isn't as powerful as The Jokers magic that my presence doesn't affect time and outcome" Peter said as the group got closer to the castle. The backdrop was closed with A lock and when Mathias was about to break the lock, Peter sighed and stopped him. "Don't be an idiot! All you have to do is this" Peter said as he took out a Bobby pin from his pocket and began unlocking the lock and un chaining the doors.

Mathias looked at Peter confused to see such a little kid be so good at entering an estate without permission. "Why'd ya have the Bobby pin?" Mathias asked him.

Peter blushed in embarrassment, "I...I sometimes braid some fairies hair..." He mumbled as he walked into the dark gloomy castle that held the Queens hostage. Inside the castles, there were some guards who were snoozing and bored. Peter peered from a corner and looked back at the Nordics. "They're normal people...no magic, no ability from what I can see and read from them" Peter informed as In a second Berwald had knocked them out. Mathias gazed upon the swede slightly confused,

"sve? You never actually take action unless you want to protect someone or something" he said as Berwald only shrugged.

Peter looked at Berwald confused and tino only smiled,

"sve is very confusing but he really likes you" tino said with a smile

Peter only nodded as they slowly walked through the castle until they heard voices from the dining room.

"King David the queens are here for dinner." A servant said in the room loudly. The est of the voices were muffled. Mathias walked towards the door when petter stopped him. Shaking his head violently, refusing to open.

"We can't rescue the queen just yet. Please I need more information for my superiors before we rescue them" Peter whispered to Mathias. Mathias began to ignore Peter when Berwald only began to drag Mathias away. Tino slightly panicked as he saw this,

"Sve? Sve?" Tino asked but Berwald only nodded and kept walking. Tino slightly sighed, "sve thinks you may have a point little joker" Tino told Peter. Peter Kirkland only nodded in return as he showed the way to a room which held the inexplicable magic that the Jokers so much looked for.

((Note: I have finals this week, and I have been so incredibly stressed for tests that i apologize for not updating as much as I wished I could. I'm so sorry! Sorry guys. But since my writers block is starting to go away and winter break is coming then I will be able to write! So thank you for continuing to read))